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diff --git a/vsprojects/README.md b/vsprojects/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index ee32ecab9a..0000000000 --- a/vsprojects/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -# Pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files: DELETED - -**The pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files are no longer available, please use cmake instead (it can generate Visual Studio projects for you).** - -**Pre-generated MS Visual Studio projects used to be the recommended way to build on Windows, but there were some limitations:** -- **hard to build dependencies, expecially boringssl (deps usually support cmake quite well)** -- **the nuget-based openssl & zlib dependencies are hard to maintain and update. We've received issues indicating that they are flawed.** -- **.proto codegen is hard to support in Visual Studio directly (but we have a pretty decent support in cmake)** -- **It's a LOT of generated files. We prefer not to have too much generated code in our github repo.** - -See [INSTALL.md](/INSTALL.md) for detailed instructions how to build using cmake on Windows. |